My new KH fic is here~! And I'm overjoyed that I got. . . the prologue. . . done. . . Gah, I'm not so happy anymore now that I've realized I still have to write Chapter 1. . . . . =3= *not very happy* But whatevs.

This story has slight AU, like, after this, maybe in the later chapters. I'll have you guys know, this takes place DIRECTLY AFTER Kingdom Hearts 2, so don't try to pummel me with questions about KH1, BBS, 358/2 Days, Re:Coded, Re:COM, or DDD. I haven't beaten 2 of these games anyway, and you'll have to GUESS which ones they are. I'm not telling. I'm in a foul mood right now.

Even though I'm not happy, I'll still supply a funny disclaimer. Roll the clip! (starts playing Starships by Nicki Minaj)

I don't own

Kingdom Hearts~

But I

wish I did~

Because

It's such an awesome game~

All I own is

This fanfic.

OOWOAH~!

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Heh, sorry. It's unoriginal yet original at the same time. I came up with it, but I used it in my other KH fic and.. you know what, just whatever. Just read and enjoy, my friends. =_=

Prologue

It was the final battle. I saw my keyblade was getting chipped a little, but I could fix that later. I didn't pay much attention to the way the bandages on my left wrist were loosening and beginning to fall off; that was also something I could fix.

I jumped back to dodge an attack, and Sora had jumped over to where I was, dodging an attack of his own. We landed within inches of each other, both of us holding up our keyblades to deflect the attacks that just kept coming. Suddenly the attacks just stopped. Sora heaved a sigh. With my eyes narrowed, I looked around the area.

I didn't know what to call it; we weren't in a room, but we weren't in mid-air either. The ground below us was perfectly stable, even though it looked like you could fall through it at any given time. It looked like this place seemed to go on forever, but there was some kind of barrier that kept you from leaving a certain area. If I was forced to pick a name for this strange place, I would go with void.

Sora turned to me with his signature grin. "Riku, we did it!" He dismissed his keyblade, and by doing so, he was left out in the open for attack.

I turned and put a hand on his shoulder. "Sora, I don't think Xemnas would give up that easily."

It was true. Xemnas wasn't one to give up at all, in fact, he seemed so determined that he would have to die before he surrendered. I could arrange that. But all the while I also couldn't, for Xemnas was a Nobody and Nobodies don't really die. They fade. It's a fairly complicated matter, and it's really hard to explain.

Sora's voice snapped me back into the situation. "What are you talking about? He's not here."

I shook my head. "No, he is. I can feel it."

Sora sighed and summoned his keyblade again in a flash of light. "Fine, if you say so. I'll keep my guard up."

"Good." Was all I could think to say. I turned around, still scanning for our enemy.

Just then, I heard a shriek coming from behind me. I swerved around, hoping the cry belonged to something, anything other than Sora. Of course, I had to be wrong, because Sora, Xemnas, and I were the only ones here, in this void of a place. I saw a blur of a black and white coat, and I knew it had to be Xemnas. He attacked Sora when I was caught off guard! Xemnas stayed right there long enough to turn towards me and smirk before disappearing again.

Something in me wanted to just blindly attack the air around me, not caring whether or not Xemnas was in range. Instead, I fought that urge and searched for Sora. After a few moments, my gaze finally found him. He was about halfway across the 'void' from me and was lying there, unmoving. Which wasn't normal for the cheery, optimistic, ball of energy that Sora was.

I ran over to him, not knowing what I would do once I got there. Sora slowly rolled himself over, which meant he wasn't dead, which was a relief. I dropped to my knees beside him and looked into those deep blue eyes. "S-Sora, are you alright?" It was a rhetorical question and I knew it, but I couldn't help but to ask. I knew he was going to say he was fine, even though I knew he wasn't. He looked unusually pale, and he looked so fragile, laying there. I was afraid that if I tried to move him, he would shatter into a thousand pieces.

I was right, too. Sora nodded and said, "I'm fine."

I shook my head slightly. "No, you're not."

Sora frowned a little. "If you're going to answer the question yourself, then why bother to ask?"

"Because I wanted to know if you would tell me that you're fine to spare my feelings even though you aren't. Here, drink this." I said as I gave him a potion.

Sora saw what was in my hand and grimaced, sitting up. At least now I knew movement doesn't mean shattering. Eyeing the bottle in my hand, he asked me, "Do I have to?"

I nodded and pushed the small, blue bottle into his hands. He sloshed the green potion inside of it around, obviously procrastinating. I nudged the bottle closer to him, silently requesting that he takes at least a sip. It would surely help how pale he was, and he would be able to stand without assistance.

Instead of taking a sip, however, Sora quickly brought the bottle up to his lips and downed the potion in three long gulps. I was a little shocked by his sudden action, but I smiled as I saw him recover almost instantly. He looked stronger than before, and I wondered if I had given him a mega potion instead of a regular one.

He sprung to his feet, summoning his keyblade and looking ready for anything, as if the last few minutes had never happened. I sighed and smirked the usual amused smirk that he had always earned from me, even when I wasn't in the mood to deal with him. I summoned my keyblade and stayed near Sora. I kept him within my eyesight, not wanting to take the risk of my friend getting hurt again.

Just then, it was black everywhere. I could just barely see my hand in front of my face. Sora was obviously freaking out, because he ran into me and both of us nearly toppled over. I grabbed the air in front of me, hoping I had grabbed Sora's arm. I had, and I pulled him a little closer to me. I looked wherever I thought his eyes were. "Calm down, Sora. It's not like we're dead."

That must have worked, because I heard a sigh coming from the darkness near me. I also heard something else. It sounded like. . . buzzing. My eyes widened as I remembered hearing that sound so many times during this battle. It was the sound that Xemnas' ethereal blades made, and the sound that the lasers he fired made.

Suddenly, the black around Sora and I was lit up with what looked like thousands of red dots. I looked around, now that I could see, and almost instantly found Xemnas. He laughed and pushed his hands together forcefully, causing the red dots around Sora and I to turn into and endless amount of lasers.

In just a few moments, Sora and I were jumping this way and that, trying our best to avoid lasers, deflect lasers, and protect each other all at the same time. I saw the area around us get brighter and brighter as the lasers came faster and faster until it was completely white.

By the time the bright light dissipated, Sora and I were on the ground, panting. Sora was close behind me. I didn't have enough strength to turn around and see if he was okay. I looked up. Xemnas was nowhere in sight. I sighed, but it blended into my panting. I could feel sweat dripping down my nose.

I heard a faint buzzing noise again. I wondered if Sora could hear it, but I knew he couldn't. Before I knew what was going on, I saw a flash of red coming closer to my face. I felt a burning pain on my head and I flew backwards. I heard Sora call out my name in a panicked tone. I wondered if the pain in my head had come from the blow I had just taken or just a normal headache.

I recovered quickly, though, and I looked up to see Xemnas pointing one of his ethereal blades at Sora. Something flared up inside of me, giving me a burst of energy. I saw Xemnas prepare to attack Sora, but I intervened. I quickly threw myself forward, pushing Sora back and passing Xemnas a little. Xemnas retorted to my outburst by spinning around with his ethereal blade held parallel to the ground, and he struck my back.

I hurt much more than I expected, and I let out a small groan of pain. Not even realizing I still had my keyblade, I watched as my arm flew up and my keyblade flew out of my hand and towards Sora. Sora, who was still recovering from how hard I pushed him backwards, planted his feet and lunged at Xemnas, using his left hand to catch my keyblade and attack.

I noticed how surprised Xemnas looked when Sora finally got to him, as he was still gloating a bit at how badly he hurt me. I couldn't help but smirk when the hunter became the hunted. I let Sora take care of whatever he was planning on doing while I recovered. I pulled out my last potion and, to my disappointment, found that it was half empty. That would barely be enough to help me fight, but I might be able to dodge attacks fairly well. If only I had decided to stay long enough to learn more than 'fire' during Merlin's magic class, I could just cast cure on Sora and I and jump back into the fight. But instead I had decided to rely on potions.

I rolled my eyes, refusing to focus on that. Mimicking Sora, I quickly brought the bottle to my lips and downed the green liquid inside of it. I winced at the bitter taste, but sighed as a small feeling of relief swept through me, dissolving the stinging feeling I got from being attacked by Xemnas' ethereal blades.

Just then, Sora landed on his feet next to me, saying my name and holding out his keyblade. I put my hand over his on the handle, and a faint light shimmered. I looked up at the tip of the keyblade and saw that it was glowing, a large orb of light beginning to form around it. The orb soon exploded, sending a thin laser of light straight through Xemnas.

It suddenly got bright again. Sora and I shielded our eyes- well, I'm sure I did. I'm not sure about Sora. When the light faded, I saw Xemnas drop from above where he was, but he still hovered a bit off the 'ground.' I knew I hadn't recovered enough to help Sora with the final blow of battle, so I just watched his rush forward and give it as I got up and walked over to him.

"Cursed. . . Keyblade. . ." I heard Xemnas mutter. Those were his final words as he began to fade.

His fading was really dramatic, but at least he didn't talk our ears off as he faded or leave some cryptic message that we would have to decode like the others did.

When we were sure he was gone for good, we sighed a breath of relief. I looked at Sora and he beamed. "We did it!" He exclaimed again, though this time I was more sure of it than I was before.

I was about to respond when, out of nowhere, what looked like thousands of dusks surrounded us. I instantly summoned my keyblade; Sora did the same. I muttered softly, "I wouldn't be too sure of that."

Sora looked the slightest bit frightened. I wanted to reach out and convince him that we would be okay, but in order to do that I would have to convince myself first. When five or six around us prepared to strike, even though I knew I had to potions to help me recover, I used the greater portion of my power to "take care of" all these unwanted Nobodies.

There was a bright flash of light, and I reopened my eyes to see a the few remaining dusks disappearing. I dropped to my knees in exhaustion. It only took a few seconds for Sora to turn around, gasp, and drop down near me, balancing himself on one foot and one knee. "Riku!"

"Sora, I can't. . ."

"Don't say another word." Sora said firmly, grabbing my arm and helping me up.

I winced at the sudden movement, but quickly adjusted to it as Sora moved me so he could keep us both balanced and still be able to walk.

"Sora?" I asked softly.

"Hmm?" Sora looked at me. I swear he looked so innocent, I almost couldn't believe he's been through countless battles.

I smiled a bit and said, "You lead."

Sora nodded. "Okay."

Okay, sooo that's that. My second KH fanfic, and if you didn't know already it's from Riku's POV. This is only here to distract impatient readers from the ever-long periods of time that I don't update stories. Oh, and just to let you guys know, my Zelda fanfic? It has not been forgotten, I just haven't had the time to work on it, plus I've got serious writer's block with that one. It may be a few more days before I update, so PLEASE BE PATIENT. For my sake? =3=